{"product_id":"9781529071177-fortunate-woman","title":"A Fortunate Woman","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Country Doctor’s Story\u003cbr\u003eA moving, evocative account of a rural GP in a remote location.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize\u003cbr\u003eThe Top Ten Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Paperback of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eIf you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is definitely the book you should be reading\u003c\/b\u003e’ \u003cb\u003e- Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Polly Morland is clearing out her mother’s house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine – she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, with its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly moving love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eChristina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Timely . compelling . a delicately drawn miniature’ - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This book deepens our understanding of the life and thoughts of a modern doctor, and the modern NHS, and it expands movingly to chronicle a community and a landscape’ - Kathleen Jamie,\u003ci\u003e New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40738057945185,"sku":"9781529071177","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28180807.jpg?v=1722416606","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529071177-fortunate-woman","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}